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Kill the
staging bottleneck .

Your devs ship 10× faster with AI. One shared staging can't absorb that. Give every pull request its own full-stack environment - apps, databases, queues, seeded data, real TLS, real URLs.

1. Install the skill
$ curl -fsSL https://skill.qovery.com/install.sh | bash
2. Then ask your AI agent
> Create a preview environment for PR-435 with Qovery
1
env per PR
~3 min
to spin up
Auto
TTL cleanup
$100K+
saved vs staging bottlenecks
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The problem

One staging.
N engineers.
Chaos.

You have one staging environment. Ten engineers are shipping features. Two of them stepped on each other's data this morning. That's $100K+ per year in lost productivity from staging conflicts alone.

01

Shared staging is a lock, not an environment

Every PR that wants real testing has to queue. Your bottleneck is your one fragile staging DB.

02

"Works locally" stopped meaning anything

Your prod has 17 services, 4 queues, and a third-party webhook. Nobody runs that locally.

03

QA signs off on last week's code

By the time staging stabilizes, the PR under test has been rebased three times.

How it works

Commit to URL
in three minutes.

Triggers What creates environments
🔀Pull request opened🤖AI agent PR📋Manual cloneScheduled test suiteBranch push
Qovery platformEnvironment lifecycle management
Clone blueprint
Full stack: apps, databases, queues, workers
Cost caps & TTL
Per-env budget limits, auto-destroy on expiry
Seed data
From production snapshot or fixture pack
Auto-cleanup
PR merged or abandoned → env destroyed, costs stop
Preview environments Running on your Kubernetes
PR #142 - full stack
Real URL + TLS
PR #143 - full stack
Real URL + TLS
Agent workspace
Isolated sandbox
QA environment
Seeded test data
Shareable with PMs
Real URLs, real data
Auto-destroyed on merge
Costs stop instantly

Ready to see this in action?

What you get

One env,
per PR, for real.

Six capabilities that turn ephemeral environments from a nice idea into a default.

01

Per-PR previews

Every pull request triggers a full environment: every service, every database, every queue.

02

Seeded fixture data

Hydrate each env from a golden dataset, a prod snapshot, or a fixture pack.

03

Real URLs, real TLS

pr-142.preview.acme.com with a real certificate. Shareable with designers, PMs, customers.

04

TTL cleanup

Merge the PR, env dies. Abandon the PR, env dies after 7 days. Cost stays flat.

05

Cost caps & preview budgets

Per-repo and per-team budgets for preview spend.

06

Any stack, any service

Apps, databases, Helm charts, cron jobs, workers - all reproducible, all ephemeral.

The rollout

From one
to N envs.

How teams typically adopt preview environments.

Day 1

First preview

One repo wired. Next PR spins up its own env.

Day 10

Seeded data

Prod-snapshot seeding enabled. QA switches to PR URLs.

Day 21

Budget guardrails

Per-team caps set. Cost stays under $800/mo for 80 developers.

Day 45

Staging retired

Shared staging decommissioned. Release velocity up 2x.

Featured · Customer voice
“We killed shared staging. It was the most controversial decision - everyone thanked us within two weeks.”
JM
Julian Meyer
Director of Engineering · Alan
Read story

Every branch,
its own world.

Declare previews in fifteen lines. Get a full-stack environment per PR. Want to estimate the ROI? Talk to us.